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Pearson is a drug-free workplace.
This position may be located in Iowa City, IA; Austin, TX; or San Antonio, TX
-Development and review of English Language Arts items for large-scale assessments; evaluation of passages for use in large-scale assessments; interpretation of blueprints, and the construction of operational and field tests.
-Involvement in standards interpretation, application of best practices in item and test development, facilitation of committees, and alignment determinations.
-Position requires skills in grammar, editing, and communications with internal and external customers.
-Help facilitate, maintain and oversee content development in English Language Arts, Reading, Writing and/or Communications (Listening/Speaking); item writing and item and data review sessions; and provides content expertise during those sessions as necessary.
-Develop item, passage, and test specifications documents as necessary. Assist in developing and conducting the item-writer training for development workshops. Perform passage research according to required specifications as needed.
- Help select, assign and manage subcontracted item and content development via item writers.
- Review and edit test items developed by contractors during the item writing and review workshops.
- Classify test items according to pre-specified content dimensions. Ensure the accuracy of item content coding, keying, and item validations.
- Provide references in support of the use of each item (i.e. for the correct response and the incorrect response alternatives) as well as source references and copyright research.
- Consult with the customer as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc.
- Work closely with Test Development Managers, other Content Developers, Psychometricians, and across group users of assessment content.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Some travel required for project-related meetings as necessary.
- Bachelor's Degree in English, English Literature, Education, or equivalent education & experience required; Master's degree desired.
- At least 5 years experience in English education required.
- Some experience in large-scale educational measurement, especially item development, strongly preferred.
- Some project management experience, including the scheduling of large-scale projects as well as personnel management preferred.
- Must have outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to provide problems/solutions to a variety of audiences including both sophisticated and naive customers.
- Excellent project planning and organizational skills required, including the ability to coordinate a project and individuals and to adapt to unforeseen and unexpected requests or changes in priorities.
- General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred.
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